building boost iostreams

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I've been trying to get boost compiled with zlib on windows.
I have win xp, MSVC 2005.
Boost is ...

Your path has a space in it. Perhaps that is causing a problem? I don't see how, but . . .

Maybe instead of "-sZLIB_SOURCE=C:\cpp libraries\zlib123" you need to pass "-sZLIB_SOURCE=C:\cpp libraries\zlib123\zlib123\bin" or something? What does the directory structure look like there? Did you go "extract all" or "extact to directory . . ." or what?

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." -- Alan Perlis
"Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence." -- Edsger Dijkstra
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." -- John Powell

Many Windows command-line tools have trouble with spaces. It's just the way it is; it's the way the Windows shell works. It's not boost-specific or anything. I myself never create files with spaces in their name for just that reason.

You almost never have those sorts of problems under Linux, because a space can be represented as "\ ".

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." -- Alan Perlis
"Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence." -- Edsger Dijkstra
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." -- John Powell